The Moonshiner's Leghorns

[Painted Calls]

You know what? I thought about that.
How many breeder pens do you have?

Definitely not enough.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answers to.

@MIAMI LEGHORN cover your ears!

Oh dear

I figured they were sold as eating eggs but now I'm not sure

 

[Miami Leghorn]

I only focus on a few pens at a time. I always have several project birds that I don't even hatch from.
I can't work on every thing at all times which sucks but it is what it is.
I hate to admit it but if I did I'd be hatching 1,000s of chicks a year and that's more then I can handle.
I usually only use two hovabators for hatchers. Each are split into 5 sections so that means to keep track of everyone I can only hatch 10 or 12 projects at a time. There's a few I can mix in a section but I don't like to just to make sure there's no mix ups. Like now I can scatter MF nonsense with anyone because nothing else is buff or buffish.
I've also been putting exchequer in with duckwing varieties.
It kinda works out to being able to collect about 14 eggs a day to set. I get a lot more then that from just what I'm working on at any time.
I collect for six days then set.
I toss dirty eggs, small eggs and funky shaped eggs. If I'm still over the limit I set the freshest and toss the oldest.
I hate not setting more and I hate tossing any but I have to keep things in check.
In the middle of the season I switch most projects out for others. Sometimes I randomly switch because I have enough hatches from a project or I'm worried that I need to get a different one going.
It's a huge balancing game with several factors. I just wing it and learn something every year.
For instance in the last year or two I've been having to give up breeder pens to grow outs towards the end of the season so I need to focus on the larger groups earlier. Hatch heavy the switch them out. That way towards the end I'm hatching from pairs, trios etc that don't need the largest pens.
Not many do what I do so my situation is very different then most and I don't have a lot of places to learn from besides my own trial and error.

 

[Miami Leghorn]

Yeah, I mean,I can totally see it.
You've got your locked-in projects you breed for continuance and adding more of those numbers. You've got your trials that turn out some interesting patterns and you follow those. You have something that clicked in your head while driving or while performing chores, and it comes to you and you follow up on that when you get back home. You have colors that you've seen/started that are in process of coming up in your yard and you're almost there. You've got offshoots that may have derailed your original plans for that breeding but damn it, you like what you see so NOW you're going with those as well.
I see that and F*ck it's exciting.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I am so sick of not getting notifications on this thread. Makes me crazy.

That's all I've got.

You cheated...

Black tailed reds or other mille fluer nonsense.

Best thing I've ever read in this thread.

What else was I supposed to call it? “The grime that clogs your pens when you’re trying to sort out a decent Mille Fluer”?

I was wrong. This is the best thing.

Me watching Miami lose it…
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdu9B3jN/

Pay up in barred BC eggs.

Umm, I didn’t know that the sales department was wheeling and dealing for feather footed non-leghorn birds.

nothing gets a name

I do this too.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Umm, I didn’t know that the sales department was wheeling and dealing for feather footed non-leghorn birds.

If you hadn't said something about this, I never woulda figured out what breed she was saying I kept thinking buff Columbian for some reason.


Overo, if you come out here next year I'll have lots. Even some frizzled barreds

 

[Painted Calls]

I am so sick of not getting notifications on this thread. Makes me crazy.

You cheated...

Best thing I've ever read in this thread.

I was wrong. This is the best thing.

Me watching Miami lose it…
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdu9B3jN/

Umm, I didn’t know that the sales department was wheeling and dealing for feather footed non-leghorn birds.

I do this too.

 

[Chookwagn]

Don't ask questions you don't want to know the answers to.

@MIAMI LEGHORN cover your ears!

I believe he has some piggys to feed I bet they love omlettes

 

[Miami Leghorn]

I believe he has some piggys to feed I bet they love omlettes

Everybody's gotta eat.

 

[The Moonshiner]

You know what? I thought about that.
How many breeder pens do you have?

I'm using 12 right now.